I turned 30 8 days after giving birth to my first child. I really have no memory of it at all.
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
Riley ,'Lessons'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Jun 05, 2006 12:03:11 am PDT #695 of 10002
information libertarian
Volans - Jun 05, 2006 12:44:12 am PDT #696 of 10002
move out and draw fire
30 was no big deal, I can't even remember what I did for it. I do remember sitting in the caf at work with some friends, and one of them saying that the "Oh God I'm OLD" feeling didn't hit until you turned 31. Which was true for me. At 30 I still felt young. At 31 I broke my leg playing paintball and felt old.
Oddly, after 35 I started feeling young again.
Theodosia - Jun 05, 2006 1:55:35 am PDT #697 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I can't remember anything at all specific about my 30th, but then my birthdays usually suck -- a hasty afterthought to my family's Xmas celebration.
Now I'm depressing myself, which I didn't want to do first thing in the morning!
tommyrot - Jun 05, 2006 2:41:58 am PDT #698 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
For my 30th birthday, a friend who was dying of AIDS took me and two other friends out to eat at an expensive SF restaraunt. At this point the dying friend was a very bitter and angry person, and could be a very critical and demanding customer, so, um... it was a stressful dinner.
tommyrot - Jun 05, 2006 3:15:05 am PDT #699 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, off I go to the eye clinic thingie....
Nora Deirdre - Jun 05, 2006 3:47:30 am PDT #700 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Loved my 30th birthday, loved being 30, continuing to love my 30s.
Good luck today, Jesse!
Happy 30th, Dana!
Well, I'm so excited that the beautiful weather is TODAY, while I am stuck inside my office, rather than this weekend. I am truly grateful for resembling a drowned rat while doing all my errands and not being able to sleep all weekend because of fear that the rainwater would push into the basement again. YAY NEW ENGLAND JUNE!!!!
beekaytee - Jun 05, 2006 4:20:31 am PDT #701 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
The week before my 30th birthday, I reconnected with my mother who had abandoned me to my pedophile father 27 years before...and confronted said father. Drama of the highest order.
But on the actual day, my boyfriend of that era executed the most extraordinary treasure hunt all over Pittsburgh. He'd worked on it for months, setting up tasks and events at businesses from Victoria Secret (the manager squealed "Oh, YOU'RE the special one! when I showed up with the little poem I was to recite for my prezzie. The BF was a huge hero.), to a local florist, a funky coffee house and my favorite restaurant. We ended up dancing to 'our song' on the banks of a river at 3am.
The 30's were a time of tremendous change. The 40s have been much more contented and happy.
erikaj - Jun 05, 2006 4:32:45 am PDT #702 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I got a tattoo. And then wrote about it to everyone.
Cashmere - Jun 05, 2006 4:57:49 am PDT #703 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Which means, I guess, that she's getting some of her payback early.
I need to get one of those dolls.
I got a tattoo. And then wrote about it to everyone.
A fine way to celebrate.
sarameg - Jun 05, 2006 5:14:12 am PDT #704 of 10002
I didn't give a shit about turning 30. Except there were a bunch of external things happening around that time that made me laugh in a dark kind of way because they were the sort of things that should make it a trauma and gave me moments of maybe I should care? But I'm an unbirthday person.